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No 64,822} Ratent ed May 14, 1867,

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IMPROVEMENT IN BABY-CARRIAGE;

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i Be it known that I, S; SAYRE WOODRUFF, of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings, and State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baby-Carriages;andIdo hereby decla're that the following is a full, clear, and exactdesc'riptiori of the same, reference beinghad to the nccompnnyingdrawings, making a. portionof this specification, in which- Figure 1 isa side view of ababy-carriuge coirstructedoccording to my invention.

Figure 2 iso. plan view of the same, v

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in bothfigures. v p This invention consists in a reversible pivoted tongue, 50-combined with the body of .a suitable carriage that the said carriage,whenin use, unity be eith'erdrawh or pushed along, as may be desired,witheq ualeonv'enience andfacility. The invention furth er consists inthe combination of a tongue of this description constructed with elasticsides, in combination with lugs or steps formed upon the body of thecarriage, whereby such tongue may be very easily and efl'ectuollysecured in' either a. forward or rearward position upon the carriage,'as1nay be required.

' To enable others to understand the nature and construction of myinvention, I'will proceed to: describe it with reference to thedrawings. I

The body of the carriage is represented at A, and is supported upon thetwo main wheels B, and furnished,

' when preferred, with a caster-wheeL-a, at its forward end. The tongueor shaft, by which the carriage is drawn or pushed along, as the casemay be, is marked C, and has the lower endsof its two side portions'.a*pivoted to. the opposite sides of the-body A, near the bottom thereof inany suitable manner, or, if desired, the said tongue may be pivoteddirectly uponthe axle c of the main or supporting'wheelsB. The saidtongue b'eing'thus pivoted may be turned-into a forward position, asshown in 'blaok'in the drawings, so as to permit the carriage to bedrawn thereby when desired, or may be turned back intothe position shownin red outline in fig. 1, which being done, the carriage may be pushedalong by means of the said: tongue, instead of being drawn, asjustmentioned. In order to provide for the proper retention of the tongue Cin either position, when the carriage is in use, there is secured uponeach side of the ,rear part of the body A an ear or step, d, which hasformed inita notch, a. Secured in like manner to'the forward part of thebodyA, one upon each side thereof, are two similar ears or steps e,which, like the ears (1, are formed with notches, also marked a. Theseears (i above their surfaces made sloping o'r inclined, as shown morefully in fig. 2, inorder to facilitate the passing of the elastic sidesa* of the tongue C over or upon the said ears, as presently eziplained.The two side portions a* ot' the tongue 0 are made sufficiently elasticto be capable of yielding slightly in a lateral-direction, so that whenthe tongue is I 'turned forward, as hereinbeforc set forth, the saidsides will pass ove;r or upon the ears e and enterthe notches (ifthereof, and be held in position thereby as required in drawing thecarriage, and so that when the tongue is turned backf es shown in redoutline in fig. 1, and also hereinbefore explained, the said sides will,in a similar iiisnner, catch in the notches a of the ears (Z and holdthe tongue in such rearward positionas required pushing instead ofdrawing the carriage. i a

By making thetongue reversible in this manner the cnrriage lnnybereryreadilyeonverted from om capable of being drawn into one capable ofbeing pushed along, and the means just described render the retention ofthe tongue in-either position as firm and seeure'as it" the said tonguewere permanently attached in suci position to the carriage.

What I eiairr as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,isi v 1. The combination of the pivoted reversible tongue or shafts withthe body of the carriage, substa'ntiall;

as herein set forth for-tho purpose specified. r e

2. The combination of the pivoted reversible tongue orshafts oonstructedwith elastic sides, asset forth, wit] the ears or steps (I and e formedupon the-body of the carriage, substantially as and for the purposespecified s. SAYRE WOODBUFF.

Witnesses;

J. W. Coonss, G. W. REED.

